644 rHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1734. 



to vomit till he took the oil, &c. Afterwards his head grew giddy, and his eyes 

 misty and wandering; next a kind of humming or hissing noise seemed conti- 

 nually to sound in his ears, which was followed by the syncopes abovemen- 

 tioned. 



There supped with him two women the same night, one of them happened 

 to have a dislike to celery, and therefore laid aside all that she took for such ; 

 the other having before been out of order, and was not then perfectly reco- 

 vered, eat but sparingly, but took this supposed celery along with the other 

 herbs, and felt and complained of all the same symptoms, but in a less degree 

 than the man had done. She would not be prevailed on to vomit, but only 

 took the cordial draught above described. The man got quite well, but the 

 woman is still out of order. 



They say there was not put into the whole sallad more that what grows on 

 one of the roots. 



Aurora' Boreales observed at Wittemberg in 1732. By J. F. Weidler, LL. D. 

 and F.R. S. N'^ 432, p. 291. Abridged from the Latin. 



Feb. 18, 1732, o. s. about Q in the evening, the sky serene, there appeared 

 an aurora borealis. A black arch, whose middle was 20 degrees high, was seen 

 in the north, where a little before, that same evening, the sky was observed 

 serene. The part of the heavens over the black arch was white, and from it at 

 times, shot forth the usual radiations of the lumen boreale, or the luminous 

 pyramids, as also very thin white vapours, like small clouds, were carried with 

 a swift motion towards the vertex. 



At 10 o'clock the motion of the luminous matter seemed to cease for some 

 time; yet presently from that white part of the heavens white undulating 

 vapours issued ; but the representation of a canopy near the vertex was not seen. 



The shining pyramids rose on both sides near the north point; but the fluc- 

 tuating vapours were more frequent towards the west; the air was all the time 

 still and calm. 



Oct. 12, 1732, o. s. immediately after 6 in the evening, there again appeared 

 an aurora borealis, namely a dark arch expanded between n. n. w. and n. e. 

 Above the arch there was a remarkable bright space of the heavens, about 10 

 degrees broad, but not exactly expressing the figure of an arch. The broader 

 portion declined about lO degrees from the north to the west; and from thence, 

 as from the fountain of the luminous matter, at 30 minutes after 6, many 

 white pyramids issued which almost reached the zenith; some of them were 

 red, and vanished soon: one in particular, extended between the Crown and 



